8 November 2007

Guest Photo: Portland, USA

It had to happen sooner or later. At some point a photo from Portland, USA was sure to ding into our inbox. We have been hearing so much about Portland lately. The good cycling people of the city are endearing themselves to us more and more each day. [Although we'll never forgive them for bribing and flirting their way into second place - ahead of Copenhagen - on this very unscientific list... :-)]

We were dying to gain a glimpse of cycle chic in the city and we have to thank Patrick for sending this one along.

"Your website has been an absolute inspiration to me. I spent this summer attempting to document the best of Portland bicycle chic, but found that it's trickier than it looks. I did manage to get one photo I would like to share with you. Thank you so much for your amazing glimpse into your culture."

Thank YOU, Patrick. We're so pleased to be able to have a Portland photo of cycle chic on the blog.

And please tell everyone to keep up the splendid bike advocacy work in your passionate town.

Portland, indeed. Wonderful city (we used to live there and it's my mate's hometown.) I didn't even own a bike when I lived there though. Wondering if Davis, California (where I presently live) has shown up here...since Davisites consider THEIR city to be THE biking city/town in the U.S. ;)

Thanks for posting my photo! I am a celebrity now due to a large number of Portlanders who apparently check your site as often as I do.

I got a new camera and am clicking away with twice the resolution and image stabilization, so hopefully I will have some new beauties. It's been rough lately though with the colder weather moving in, still some good stuff though.

I try to update my Flikr page whenever I get a good shot:http://www.flickr.com/photos/14633132@N04/for Ganesha1113